InSAFE - Securing the Future of the UK's Insect Farming Industry

**英国昆虫养殖业的增长目前受到以下因素的限制：**1。对包括昆虫蛋白在内的加工动物蛋白使用的严格立法，严重限制了昆虫产品的市场。缺乏涉及在封闭人工环境中高密度单一养殖条件下昆虫饲养工作人员职业健康的规程。食品安全和质量标准，以及符合全球标准和零售商“供应守则”的昆虫饲养操作守则。这些**目前不存在许可的原料**，但对这一新兴部门的发展和未来可行性至关重要。这也限制了其他收入来源的发展，例如昆虫副产品，因为这些障碍也适用。此外，使用非许可原料的昆虫饲养系统可以释放该行业的潜力，使昆虫养殖在替代蛋白质行业中具有全球意义。**InSAFE**将告知制定适用于各种原料和生产规模的幼虫饲养设施的规程、操作规范和标准的可行性，包括集装箱单位、20吨和1000吨昆虫/天单位。研究将提供可靠的数据，以支持这些文件的编制。利兹大学的国家养猪中心与Entocycle合作建造了一个集装箱昆虫饲养单元，作为一种新的示范设施，可以在猪浆、污水污泥和鸡粪等非许可原料上饲养黑虻（BSF）幼虫。**项目的新颖性来源于：**1。它使用非允许的原料。探索昆虫饲养的健康和安全要素，包括职业健康1。为昆虫养殖场制定符合食品安全标准的规程和操作规范。除了Entocycle的BSF饲养装置外，还将从该装置收集样本，用于允许的原料，包括隔离的食物垃圾。我们的项目将分析昆虫生物转化前后准生性和非准生性原料的细菌微生物群、病原体负荷、AMR基因的存在和重金属含量，以及对BSF幼虫和副产品（如碎屑）的分析。

**Growth of the UK insect farming industry is currently curtailed by:**1. tight legislation on the use of processed animal proteins, including insect proteins, severely limiting the markets for insect products.1. a lack of protocols covering occupational health of staff involved in insect rearing under high-density monoculture conditions in enclosed artificial environments.1. Food Safety and Quality Standards, and Codes of Practice for insect rearing that align with global standards and retailers' 'Codes of Supply'. These **currently do not exist for permissive feedstocks** but are crucial to the development and future viability of this emerging sector.This is also limiting the development of additional revenue streams, such as insect by-products as these barriers also apply. Furthermore, insect rearing systems that utilise **non-permissive feedstocks** could **unlock the sectors potential** towards production scales that are required for insect farming to be of global significance within the alternative protein industry.**InSAFE** will inform the feasibility of developing protocols, codes of practice and standards appropriate for larvae rearing facilities spanning a range of feedstocks and production scales, including containerised units, 20 tonne and 1,000 tonne insects/day units. Research will provide robust data to underpin the development of these documents.The National Pig Centre at the University of Leeds is home to a containerised insect rearing unit built to specification in collaboration with Entocycle, serving as a novel demonstrator facility to rear black soldier fly (BSF) larvae on non-permissive feedstocks such as pig slurry, sewage sludge and chicken manure.**The project's novelty is derived from:**1. its use of non-permissive feedstocks1. exploring the health and safety elements of rearing insects, including occupational health1. developing protocols and code of practices for insect farms that comply with food safety standards.Samples will be collected from the unit, in addition to Entocycle's BSF rearing set-up for permissive feedstocks, including segregated food waste. Our project will analyse the bacterial microbiome, pathogen loads, presence of AMR genes, and heavy metal content of permissive and non-permissive feedstocks before and after insect bioconversion, alongside analysis of the BSF larvae and by-products such as frass.